Wave and tidal power news articles 
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
The new power mix in Germany – what does it mean for the rest of Europe?
In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe’s future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this fusing of interests required more than in Germany, in the light of the government’s decision to phase out all nuclear power by 2022. The case for integration is now compelling and is something that a... [more]
Natural Power and Inova Energy partner to offer international wind farm management experience to the Brazilian market
Natural Power and Inova Energy have joined forces to develop asset management services in Brazil. This agreement is set to offer international wind farm management experience coupled with wind energy experience specific to the Brazilian market. Natural Power currently performs wind management services on 64 operational wind farm sites, totalling 1.2GW, for multiple wind farm owners in the UK and Ireland through a number of industry leading pr... [more]
Natural Power develops high resolution tidal energy resource models for Scotland's West coast
The tidal potential of the Mull of Galloway, Mull of Kintyre, Kyle Rhea and the Rhinns of Islay have long been recognised by industry and public bodies as areas of high tidal energy potential. Situated away from the Pentland Firth, these locations have been the target of the recent Further Scottish Leasing Round carried out by The Crown Estate. Natural Power’s marine renewables team have developed high resolution hydrodynamic tidal energy res... [more]
Natural Power partners withNowa Energías on the Argentinean renewables market
In 2009 Natural Power established their 12th office globally in Valparaiso, Chile from where Natural Power is currently helping clients all across Latin America. Natural Power has now signed an agreement with Argentinean renewables company Nowa Energías SA, which enables Nowa to promote Natural Power's products and services exclusively in the Argentinean renewables market for the next twelve months. Nowa is a leading Argentinean renewable ener... [more]
Other Wave and tidal power news and reviews
Tidal power gets a stormy birth
Scotland tries to harness the flow of the tides
Dan Walters: Rigid ideology keeps hydro out of green power equation
A major component of California's crusade against global warming, one started by former Gov. Ar
Nova Scotia says it wants 10 per cent of power supply coming from tidal energy
HALIFAX - The government of Nova Scotia has set a target to replace 10 per cent of the province's current power supply with tidal energy over the next decade and beyond as part of its vow to reduce fossil fuel consumption.
Dan Walters: Shouldn't hydro count against the carbon reduction mandate?
A major component of California's crusade against global warming, one started by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and embraced by successor Jerry Brown, is the legal mandate to have 33 percent of electric power sales from "renewable sources" by 2020.
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NRC chairman resigns amid battle over lessons from Fukushima
Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced Monday he would resign from the five-member commission that oversees US nuclear power plant safety after a tenure in which he wrangled with other members of the commission over the direction of safety regulations.
Tidal Wave of Tablets on the Horizon
By 2016, tablet PCs will reach an inflection point, a new study predicts: That is the year tablet shipments are predicted to outpace those of notebook PCs. That is one prediction in the quarterly NPD DisplaySearch Tablet Quarterly report. It also forecasts that shipments of tablet PCs will grow from 81.6 million units in 2011 to 424.9 million units by 2017.
World first wave energy to connect to grid
The world's first wave energy-to-power grid project has received a $10 million boost from the federal government.
Underwater turbine tests completed
An underwater turbine destined to form part of a major green energy project is already using tidal power to produce electricity for homes on a remote Scottish island.
Vattenfall plans to open marine renewables services company
Swedish power company Vattenfall has shed light on its plans to open the world’s first marine renewables services company.
